House & Garde 
Plate F-1003-A 
KOHLER 
Also MEANS A KITCHEN SINK 
Like the famous Viceroy built-in bath¬ 
tub and every other Kohler product, 
this kitchen sink is endowed with an 
unusual beauty and durability by the 
covering of pure-white enamel, into 
which is inconspicuously glazed the 
mark of quality—KOHLER. 
It is a worthy Kohler creation, from 
the attractive, simple design to this 
immaculate, matchless enamel cover¬ 
ing which protects it against the hard 
knocks of daily service. 
It is more than an expression of mere 
handicraft; it is a masterpiece into 
which has been wrought the spirit of 
well-doing which only can come of 
loyal and contented workmanship 
born of the high ideals of a great com¬ 
munity center. 
Let us send you, with our compli¬ 
ments, an interesting book which pic¬ 
tures and describes the Kohler method 
and the Kohler line. 
KOHLER OF KOHLER 
Kohler Co., Kohler, Wisconsin 
Shipping Point, Sheboygan, Wis. 
AND TWELVE AMERICAN BRANCHES 
MANUFACTURERS OF ENAMELED PLUMBING WARE 
Keep It Cool in a Good Refrigerator 
{Continued from page 72) 
and warm air from the sewage of the 
town, it will collect a very tidy packet 
of typhoid, diphtheria or any home¬ 
seeking germs. This drain ought there¬ 
fore to have a water-sealed trap in it, 
it should be smooth, of hard, well-fin¬ 
ished metal and be so simply cleaned 
that the kitchen maid, or whoever is 
delegated to perform the laving of this 
important part of the household, should 
not look forward to the performance 
with horror, but with a sense of ease. 
There isn’t a doubt that a faulty 
drain in the refrigerator has caused more 
typhoid than anything else. 
Think what it means then to be a 
good kitchen engineer—what service one 
can render one’s family! Few home- 
keepers realize the necessity of under¬ 
standing the underlying principles of 
air circulation, sanitation and germina¬ 
tion but what a lot of misery could be 
avoided if the chatelaine or even the 
wife-cook had a little technical knowl¬ 
edge. How this would dignify the sci¬ 
ence of the home. And yet how lightly 
is the function of home-keeper assumed, 
and how many brainy women look 
down upon it! 
How to Use a Refrigerator 
But if you have everything to assure 
perfection in refrigeration and know not 
how to use it, it is as if you had none 
at all. 
Note this amendment to the nine 
points: 
1. Keep your ice chamber jull, even 
after July 1st. It saves ice and pre¬ 
serves your food. The circulating air 
will only go “over the top” as far as 
the bulk of ice drives it. . 
2. Never put any food in the ice com¬ 
partment. It must play an infinite soli-- 
taire. 
3. Keep the doors shut, and open 
them as little as possible. 
4. If the ice gives out, take out all 
the material and rinse out the refriger¬ 
ator. Refill it with ice and keep the 
door shut at least six hours. And re¬ 
member sufficiency of ice insures efficien¬ 
cy of refrigeration and efficiency of 
refrigeration means a sufficiency in ex¬ 
penditure — for a refrigerator. 
Water coils can be put in some ice 
chambers which connect directly with 
the water supply. In this way the 
water can be kept continuously cool 
for drinking under all conditions of out¬ 
side temperature. 
The outside of the ice box should be 
of hard wood or porcelain, the hard¬ 
ware of the best, including lever door 
handles. 
Back doors for filling the ice box can 
be set so that the ice can be put in 
from the outside of the ice house, room, 
pantry or kitchen. This avoids useless 
handling and melting of the ice and 
obviates the iceman’s journey through 
the house. 
And, above all, choose a refrigerator 
, that has no unnecessary “improvements” 
in the ice chamber which have to be 
taken out and scalded. The easier it 
can be rinsed from within the more 
often the attendants will clean it! 
And remember this, too, that an ice 
box is a cooler where the ice and pro¬ 
visions go in the same chamber, while 
the refrigerator —well, you know it all 
now. 
And, by the way, if you want a use¬ 
ful little device to keep your grape 
juice or yourself—cool—while motoring 
this summer, look up a little basket re¬ 
frigerator which comes in many sizes 
and many prices. 
■ The Information Service will be glad 
to give advice on the purchase of re¬ 
frigerators to the readers of House & 
Garden. " 
Is There a Bird Bath in Your Garden? 
T he further we proceed in the study 
of landscape gardening—or, to use 
a less professional term, “laying out the 
grounds”—the better we realize the im¬ 
portant place which garden furniture 
holds in the plans we develop. Not only 
the useful benches, arbors and garden 
seats, but the more esthetic sundial and 
simple fountain have of late years been 
developed to a high point of excellence 
in design. 
Of all the many articles of garden fur¬ 
niture which the last decade or so has 
taught us to use, none quite fills the 
place of a suitable bird bath. I say 
suitable advisedly, for the bird bath 
should be chosen not only for the har¬ 
mony of its appearance in our particu¬ 
lar garden scheme, but also because of 
its practical adaptability for use by the 
birds. However ornamental a bird bath 
may be, if the birds do not use it its 
chief purpose is gone. 
Aside from being so placed that the 
birds will not hesitate to come to it— 
and it is often surprising how close to 
human beings and houses our robins, 
thrushes, song sparrows, wrens and 
other desirable insectivorous birds will 
fearlessly approach when attracted by 
water—the bird bath must meet certain 
structural requirements. Its diameter 
and height above the ground matter 
little, but its depth is of vital impor¬ 
tance. Birds dislike deep water—watch 
one at the brookside and see how shal¬ 
low a spot he chooses for his shower. 
The basin of the bath, then, should 
slope very gradually toward the center, 
with a water depth at the rim of not 
more than ]/%". Into such a basin a 
bird can walk until he reaches the depth 
which best suits his particular whim. 
The actual design of the bath matters 
little, so far as its utility is concerned. 
The majority consist of a simple basin 
of concrete or artificial stone, mounted 
on a pedestal 3' or 4' high, the whole 
being rather classical in design. These 
fit well in almost any garden scheme. 
For more formal', pretentious plans, 
baths in which a central fountain, and 
other ornamental features are incorpo¬ 
rated may well be chosen. Some pro¬ 
vision should always be made, however, 
for a suitable "perch from which the 
birds can step directly into the water. 
Such a perch may be no more than the 
rim of the actual basin; or, as in the 
case of a design which has recently been 
developed, it may consist of little plat¬ 
forms, or perches, in the bowl, sloping 
down from just above the surface of 
the water. 
Attention to such small structural de¬ 
tails as these which I have mentioned 
will make the difference between a bath 
which birds will use and one which they 
will not. Few indeed are the suburban 
homes where a properly made basin will 
not be patronized. In fact, its presence 
will prove a distinct attraction to birds 
which otherwise might pass your garden 
by, or visit it merely as casual instead 
of regular guests. 
R. S. Lemmon. 
